posted 11 years ago
Well, that's how splash screens are supposed to work. Pop up, hang around for a while, then close.
From the sound of it, however, Eclipse is abnormally terminating, because the Eclipse screen hangs around for quite a while and it displays a progress bar.
Look in your workspace .metadata directory. I believe you will find a logfile directory there.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.